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Cong Zhang

DPhil Student

I started my DPhil study in 2013. My DPhil thesis is about the tunes of Tianjin Mandarin and how to plan tunes before production. My supervisor is Professor Aditi Lahiri.

I received my Master's degree in Linguistics and Language Acquisition from Newcastle University (UK). There, I worked on a number of projects including child language acquisition, second language acquisition, Mandarin lexical tone perception, etc.

For my undergraduate degree, I studied Translation and Interpreting at Beijing Foreign Studies University (China). Although my current research is in a totally different field, I still take on literary translations every now and then as a hobby.

Apart from my DPhil studies, I am also doing work on L2 Mandarin fluency with Dr. Clare Wright from the University of Reading. We have presented the results in several conferences and talks. Some of our early-stage results can also be found in our 2014 paper and the 2015 conference proceeding below.